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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:09 PM
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Funny business names?
There is one in town that repairs windsheilds...name "Crackmasters"
THen there's "Horrible Hanks" Radiator repair in Creston BC

ANd of course the "Pho Bich Nigga" in Vancouver
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:12 PM
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1. "Doggy Styles" pet grooming in Austin
Also Odus Realty which I always misread as Odious
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:27 PM
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5. even better: doggy style in Dupont Circle
those familiar with the area will get the drift of this one...
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:31 PM
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37. There's a Doggy Style in Calgary, too
It shares a strip mall with a sex shop.

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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:13 PM
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2. Used to be a Chinese restaurant called Fu King
on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn...

A firm in NJ: Spastic for Plastic

A company that sold candy and nuts in midtown Manhattan: Drooler's Delight....
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:15 PM
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3. Zuzu's Petals
A plant shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Also Hoh Lin Wah, a tiny Chinese restaurant in Berlin.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:14 PM
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34. Worst Chinese Food I Ever Had Was In Berlin
In the late 80's. Worst pizza as well.
:puke:

Best freaking cakes in the world! They have places you can go just to eat cake!
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:16 PM
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4. Reminds me of a sign in the window...
...of Jack's IGA (grocery chain):

"Nobody beat's Jack's meat"
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:38 PM
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6. "Sure Beats Working"
Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 12:38 PM by LuLu550
My friend's husband has a business driving the car that escorts over sized loads on trucks. That is the name of his business.
The motto of a local septic business is "We are number one in the number two business."

I am not making this up.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:39 PM
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8. I've seen that slogan before
I can't remember where
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:39 PM
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7. "Teabaggers"
Not making this up. There's a tea shop just north of me in Urbana OH called that. I laugh every time I drive by it.

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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:40 PM
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9. Fishcoteque - A converted disco turned takeout in South London.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:42 PM
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10. The palindromic "Yreka Bakery" in the town of the same name ...
Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 12:43 PM by Richardo
...Yreka, California (pronounced "why-reeka") in Northern California. :thumbsup:
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:09 PM
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20. now thats cool.
nt
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:43 PM
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11. Waste Management
Which is the verb?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:44 PM
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12. Dick Printing .... Cheatum Furniture.....-Salina Kansas
:)
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:45 PM
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13. Actual law firm sponsor of Public radio in MI: Harness, Dicky and Pierce
Every day this law firm gets its name read as a sponsor for Morning Edition and every day I chuckle to myself.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:46 PM
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14. Kokanee Chiropractic in Nelson, BC. Works for a dirty mind, at least.
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 12:50 PM
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15. Karmachanic
In Sacramento Ca. I don't know if it is still there.
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Interrobang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 01:39 PM
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16. Those Friggin Computers
...an actual computer sales/repair place here in London ON (their logo shows a guy drop-kicking a computer, with the slogan "Let us boot it for you!"); there's also Urban Chronic, a place that sells hydroponic equipment (I'm surprised no one's managed to shut them down, considering that their sign has some suspiciously five-fingered leaves on it); and there used to be a bar near Westmount Mall called Hanovers, which I *always* misread as "Hangovers."

There's also a roving computer repair service (they have a fleet of identical red Volkswagen Beetles) called Nerds On Site.

I once had to call a place called "Wacker Silicones" for a Material Safety Data Sheet. All their products had names like "Jade #12," "Sapphire #1," "Opal #23," which completely made me think of sex toys!
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iverglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 06:30 PM
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17. Smart & Biggar

Patent & trademark agent law firm in Ottawa. Now who else would you want to take your invention to??
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:11 PM
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21. Hey, they are in Vancouver too!
My father sells office supplies to them.
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private_ryan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 06:52 PM
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18. Pho Bich Nigga
takes the cake
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:08 PM
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19. No lie--ABB
one of our vendors is that company, their logo is all over their shipments. Haven't found out yet what it means.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 09:39 AM
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47. There are some fitness drinks, etc. called ABB...American Body...something
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 04:52 PM
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48. Your ABB = Asea Brown Boveri
They make serious electrical stuff--switchgear for utilities, subway cars, that sort of thing. What business are you in?
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:31 PM
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22. Ohh,,, Fuctard. A shop in Belgium somewhere. Liege, maybe?
I love that.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:33 PM
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23. The Beaver Clinic, OB/GYN
Really!
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:36 PM
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24. S&M Body Shop
used to be in Carrington,ND
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:39 PM
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26. oh yeah
Richards Cranium (Dickheads), a bar in Bismarck
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:37 PM
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25. Eat Must Be First
Chinese takeout in Baltimore.

I'm not kidding. They even have a neon sign.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:40 PM
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28. there's one in Vancouver
On the window it says, "We are specializing in the make of Canadian and korean foods"
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POed_Ex_Repub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:39 PM
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27. "Cluck U"
A chicken fast food joint by a university here in Delaware.
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:11 PM
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32. also in MD across from Maryland Univ, Great Wings IMO!
Edited on Sun Feb-22-04 09:13 PM by 8643
I think the real full name is Cluck University Chicken.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 07:40 PM
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29. My Dung Chinese Restaurant
Just an unfortunate name for those of us not into scat.
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northofdenali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:01 PM
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30. Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn
Located on the Parks Highway midway (of course) between Fairbanks and Nenana.
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:09 PM
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31. LaPlata Glass Company in Laplata Maryland.
Fraiser Crane Co. in Fraiser Colorado are two I have seen.

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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:11 PM
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33. It's not the name that's funny, but the slogan

Seen somewhere in Vermont in the late 1980s:

PHIL'S RADIATORS
"The best place to take a leak!"
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:28 PM
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35. Not so funny, I don't guess,
but volatile and to-the-point:

"Guns, Liquor, Ammo" in Columbia, MO. Can't verify it's still there, but got a t-shirt.

Plus, in Lafayette, LA--where I currently live--there's lots of "Drive Through Daiquiri" signs. Literal drive through frozen sweet alcohol drinks w/ names like DOA, 911 and Quaalude along w/ all the other kid drinks like Fuzzy Navel, Slow Screw, Screaming Orgasm
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:31 PM
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36. I drove past a dentist's office today:
Dr. Tung.
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 09:37 PM
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38. Dick Liquors
owner: John Dick
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 12:26 AM
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39. Duke of Oil oil change garage.
Drove by that one in Chicago.

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peterh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 12:34 AM
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40. Rotten Robbie….retail gas stations….
Mostly south of San Francisco
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Shananigans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 12:35 AM
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41. The Beaver Look Hair Salon is my favorite
Try this archived thread from a few weeks ago...there are some hilarious ones in it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=714715
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twistedliberal Donating Member (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 12:36 AM
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42. Beaver Liquors
in Beaver Creek, CO.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 12:39 AM
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43. 'Big Bone Lick Kentucky State Park'
I know it isn't a buisness but I couldn't resist:D
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FeelinGarfunkelly Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 12:41 AM
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44. Kum & Go convenience stores.. chain in NE Missouri & Iowa
There's a Kum & Go right next to my college..needless to say, it raises some eyebrows and gets laughs whenever prospective students come to town. :-)
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 09:22 AM
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45. A bearing company downtown
called Hopper and Dennis.

There used to be a Boner Brothers gas station, too.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 09:37 AM
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46. Quality Screw and Nut
In Opelika, Alabama. Don't know if it's still there, but it looked like a medium sized manufacturing facility.
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